Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, "we can look forward to a time, only two fiscal years from now, when defense increases can begin to slow dramatically." The Pentagon projects that outlays would rise 9.2% in 1986 and a mere 3.9% in 1989. The military's share of the overall budget, however, would jump from 29% in 1985 to 32% in 1989-still far less than the 50% high of the mid-1950s...
Junior Mariquita Patterson won the long jump with an 18-ft., 1-in. leap, the 55 meter hurdles in 8.43, and ran in the 800 meter relay which Harvard...
...freshmen were able to jump right in," said Fish. "I'm very pleased. They showed they are good enough to play varsity squash on any team in the country...
Even so, it was a surprising jump. Morgan, the son of a successful oil executive, had aimed at the top of a business career from the time he left college. He had a single-minded determination that was often concealed beneath an exterior of rumpled suits and scuffed shoes that might have been more appropriate for a distracted economics professor rushing to class. Yet after 20 years with the same company, Morgan left. He says he looked at himself in the mirror after accepting the job, smiled and thought out loud, "Why, you little demon...
...Nordic Combined might as well be a smorgasbord entree to most Americans, but it may become less exotic after Sarajevo. Many consider Coloradan Kerry Lynch, 26, the world's best at the event, which pairs a 15-km cross-country race with a 70-meter ski jump. Lynch hopes for an end to the sport's, and his own, obscuri ty. For the U.S. to take the gold away from the defending champion East Germans, he says, "would be like the South Pole coming up and winning the Super Bowl...